Name: Stuart Feldman

Born: Unknown

  • Creator of the computer software program Make for UNIX systems.
  • Author of the first Fortran 77 compiler.
  • Part of the original group at Bell Labs that created the Unix operating system.
  • Former vice president of Computer Science at IBM Research.
  • Currently vice president, Engineering, East Coast, at Google.

Honors and awards

  • Elected the President of the ACM (2006).
  • ACM’s Software System Award (2003).
  • Fellow of the ACM (1995).
  • Fellow of the IEEE (1991).